lancinante

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.si.nɑ̃t/
• Homophone: lancinantes

lancinante

1. feminine singular of lancinant

lancinante (plural lancinanti)

1. stabbing, shooting, excruciating (pain)

   Synonyms: acuto, cocente, intenso

   • 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:

     Trasalì e fu sul punto di gridare, attraversato da uno spasmo lancinante.

     He started and almost cried out. A pang of pain had shot through his body.

     (literally, “He started and was on the verge of yelling, traversed by a shooting spasm.”)

2. piercing (noise)
3. painful (memory)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lan.kiˈnan.te/, [ɫ̪äŋkɪˈnän̪t̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lan.t͡ʃiˈnan.te/, [län̠ʲt͡ʃiˈnän̪t̪e]

lancinante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of lancināns

• Hyphenation: lan‧ci‧nan‧te

lancinante m or f (plural lancinantes)

1. piercing (noise)
   • 1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho, page 33:

     A cega […] após os gritos lancinantes que começou a soltar ao compreender que a perda da visão não era uma nova e imprevista consequência do prazer, mal ousava chorar e lamentar-se […]

     The blind woman […] after the piercing shrieks she started uttering when she understood her loss of vision was not a new and unexpected consequence of her pleasure, barely dared to cry and complain […]